Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1957 — Page 7

FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1. »57

SPORTS

Louisville Is Easy Winner Over Miami By UNITED PRESS The Louisville Cardinals, riding a 10-game winning streak, * are way out front in the race for the basketball title nobody wants—“best team that won’t go to a post-season tournament." Coach Peck Hickman’s crew certainly rate a tourney bid on the basis of their 14-2 record after a 89-60 romp over the University of Miami at Miami, Fla., Thursday night. But the Cardiiials are under a post-season ban for recruiting imposed by the NCAA. Sjnce the National Invitational Tournament abides by NCAA eligibility rules, that makes the Cardinals out of luck for either of the two big postseason court carnivals. Louisville had little trouble with Miami as stars Charley Tyra and Bill Darragh scored 19 points each and combined for a total of 35 rebounds. Two other high-rated teams also won Thursday night—l4th-ranked Wake Forest and 19th-ranked Duke — as each tried to stay close to top-ranked North Carolina in the Atlantic Coast Conference race. Wake Forest, which beat Duke on Tuesday, downed Virginia, 73581 but came away disappointed ovek the failure of Jackie Murdociqjto set a major college record for consecutive free throws. Dave Rickett&pf Duquesne set the new mark atl 40 straight Wednesday night (anti his streak still is “alive.”! Murdock had 37 straight going into Thursday night’s game, but missed his third attempt after three minutes of play —a shot that would have tied Ricketts at 40. Duke, which tobk second place in the ACC with its victory, won over Maryland, 72-60, as Jim Newcome of Duke led all scorers with 24 points. • In other leading games Thursday night: St. John’s of New York, an NIT probability, pushed its record to 9-4 with a 78-70 victroy over Pittsburgh as Dick Duckett of St. John’s and Don Hennon of Pitt each scored 19; Oklahoma City set its sate at’l2-5 with r an 84-70 romp .over Wichita as six-10 Hubert Reed scored 24 and six-five Leon Griffin tallied 23; Utah also reached 12-5 with a Skyline Conference 86-60 rout of Colorado A&M; Brown nipped Harvard, 85-56, in overtime in the Ivy League; Temple trounced Delaware, 87-57;St. Peter’s ran its perfect record to 13-0 with an 81-60 win over Siena;' Xavier of Ohio trounced Loyola (Md.), 102-76; and Denver beat Utah, 69-66, in overtime and Montana beat Wyoming, 64-60, in the Skyline Conference. Wake Forest will be back again tonight against Clemson. In another feature, fifth-ranked UCLA will try for its 14th victory in 15 games against Oregon State. If UCLA can win this one and beat the same foe again Saturday night, it will tie idle California for first place in the Pacific Coast Conference.

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Friday Angola at Yellow Jackets. Adams Central at Pennville. Monmouth at Lancaster Central. Geneva at Warren. Ron at Hartford. Saturday Berne at Ossian. Convoy at Pleasant Mills. Shift Os Pistons To Detroit Likely DETROIT (UP) — A professional basketban team for Detroit appeared a step closer today after two days of conferences between Nick Londes of Olympia Stadium and officials of the Ft. Wayne Pistons of the National Basketball Association. The round of talks concluded Thursday. After the meeting Fred Zollner, owner-president of the Pistons, and Otto Adams, club secretary, reported “further progress’’ has been made. “We are all encouraged we will be able to make the move,” Zo'R ner said. “We wiU meet again Feb. 11.” Zollner also said: “There are no major phases of disagreement in contracting for use of Olympia. We are not exploring any other location besides Detroit.” Moving the franchise from Ft. Wayne to Detroit would require league approval. But Zollner said he was not too concerned over this because NBA officials have indicated a willingness to have a league team in Detroit. Zollner said he wants to move the team because of Detroit’s larger population. He said the. Ft. Wayne has about 200.000-300,-000 people while Detroit has 2-3 millions. The Pistons have had a highly successful record at Ft. Wayne. The team has won three national titles and cun-ently leads the Western Division of the NBA. St. Joseph's Coach Signs New Contract RENSSELAER, Ind. W — Bob Jauron, head footbal coach of the j9sfl NAIA co-champion St. Joseph’s (Ind.) team, has signed a contract to fcoach the teajn ; for three more years. Under Jauron, St. Joseph’s has compiled a 19-8-1 record during the past three seasons. Zintsmaster Defeats Decatur FFA Team The Decatur FFA basketball team was defeated by Zintsmaster, 40-37. Wednesday; night. Team members and scoring: Zintsmas-ter-Bowman 9, Troutner 2, Wiess 2, Monthur 4, Lehman 8, Plasterer 2, Wiess 10, Everett 3; FFA-Knit-tle 10. Frank 11, Brown 0. Worden 9, Walters 0, Roth 4, Price 1, Allison 2. Attendance Record By Pro Grid League PHILADELPHIA W — For the fifth straight year in 1956 the National Football League hung up a new attendance mark. A total of 2,551,263 fans paid to tvatch the loop's 12 teams in action for a gain of 29,427 or 1.17 per cent over 1955. College Basketball Evansville 81, Butler 72 Tri-State 101, Benton Harbor 86. Oakland City 98, Marian 86. Indiana State 76, Southern Illinois 54. Rose Poly 70, Principle 68 (overtime). St. John’s (N.Y,) 78, Pittsburgh 70. Louisville 89. Miami (Fla.) 60. Duke 72, Maryland 60. Wake Forest 73, Virginia 58. Xavier <O.) 102, Loyola‘(Md.) 76. Cincinnati 78, Toledo 63.

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Junior High Wins Thursday Evening Decatur Junior high defeated Pleasant Mills, 20-13, at the Decatur gym Thursday evening. The Decatur quintet led at all quarters, 4-3, 10-7, and 16-9. Cowan led Decatur with six points and Snyder tallied a like number for Pleasant Mills. Decatar FG FT TP Townsend -t—. 2 0 ‘441 Cowan 3 0 6 Nelson 2 0 4 Drake 10 2 Knodel 1 0 2 Grabill 10 2 TOTALSIO ' 0 20 Pleasant Mills FG FT TP Smith 0 0 0 Martz 10 2 D. Archer 2 15 Snyder — 3 0 6 Ehrsam 0 0 0 Ohler ... 0 0 0 Fisher .... 0 0 0 Daniels 0 0 0 J. Archer 0 0 0 ’ TOTALS a 6 1 13 Today's Sport Parade (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK \UP)—There are two big “ifs” today in the life of Walter Alston. One is a, 24-year-old blond with an aching' back named Johnny Podres. The other is sore-handed Roy Campanella. “If” the Brooklyn Dodger manager can get a painless parlay out of this battery in the coming season most of his pennant worries figure to be ended. ■“Campy is the big key to next year and how far we go,” Alston admitted as he looked ahead to the onrushing season. “And the manner in which the pitching staff works out depends to a great deal on whether Podres can pitch regularly.” Depends On Hands Cartipanella even at 35 “should have a few years left in him” if his hands are all right, Alston figures. Bothered by a bad hand last season, Campanella fell off to a .219 batting average. It’s significant that the Dodgers barely squeaked through in a close pennant battle. Twice before after having won MVP honors he has bounced back. The Dodgers are hoping that, since undergoing surgery and reporting that the hand“feels fine,” he’ll do it again. But it’s oneof TO" *■*’ The other, of course, is Podres, pitching hero of the 1955 World Series whose two victories over the Yankees finally carried Brooklyn to jts first world championship. , Young Johnny always was plagued by a bad back and, after he marched off to service at conclusion of the 1955 season, he was in and out of naval, hospitals. Able To Pitch “In the last few years before he went into service, Podres seemed to be able to pitch nine innings and then be okay after three or four days rest,” Alston recalled. “Maybe now we'll only be able to use him in relief again,” Alston added. “But if he’s like he was in the World Series, maybe he’ll be all right for a regular turn.” Thus, for the Dodgers, much hinges on the physical well-being of Campanella and Podres. “But understand,” he says, “while I’m not making any claims if Campy and Podres are in shape I don’t see why we can’t win it again." “ “ . "If” they are, that might be the understatement of the sports year.

INTERIOR DECORATOR Gregg Jaurez, 34, and hia British hciress-to-$20.000,000-bride, the former Frederika Signst, 17, * cut their weddihg cake to the Dominican republic resort of Boca Chica. They met recenUy In Nassau. Bridegroom is from New York.

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Pro Foolball League Ends Player Draft PHILADELPHIA (UP) — The National Football League, its play-’ er draft completed, moved into its midwinter business sessions today with the proposed program of the new players organization, rule changes, expansion and schedule consideration on the agenda. The 12 member clubs drafted a total of 312 players Thursday, completing its selections started last November when 49 hopefuls were tapped for future play among the rugged pros. Commissioner Bert Bell planned to present the players’ program, asking a $5,000 salary minimum for drafted players and an injury clause, to the owners for consideration, and eight cities were hopeful that the league would expand to a 14 club circuit in 1958. A first day poll of the owners indicated six were perfectly willing to go along with the player requests. Los Angeles, Green Bay and San Francisco were non-com-mittal, Cleveland withheld comment, and the Chicago Bears, whose players are not members, had nothing to say. Redskin Owner Opposed George Preston Marshall, president of the Washington Redskins, opposed the players’ group move because it “would be extremely difficult to have a player association in a contact sport like football. . .The rilles which apply to baseball don’t apply (to us) in any respect.” The opening day, though dulled by the long drawn out draft routine, had its spirited moments, including the picketing of Marshall for the Redskins non-hiring of Negro players, and a salary boost for Bell by the owners. The commissioner’s salary was raised to $40,000 annually, a $lO,000 hike, plus an annual SIO,OOO turned into a trust fund as a pension for him. George Halas, owner of the Chicago Bears, took a pause in the meeting to lash back at Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick for Frick’s criticism of the NFL drafting of players made several days ago in Chicago. Frick said the draft hindered the players’ opportunity to bargain. Halas Citek Merit Halas said the draft, instituted in 1936, gave the players more opportunity than ever before as he told Frick "to stick to baseball.” The Bears’ owner said, player salaries now are three to five fclmes higher than,,.thfcY WeiX .before the league adopted its draft, and that they have every opportunity to negotiate with Canadian teams. Los Angeles, torn by front office bickering in a dispute and court suit involving President Dan Reeves and co-owners Edwin Pauley, Fred Levy and Hal Seeley, had its difficulties settled when they shook hands and agreed to future management of the club, with Bell appointed to step in as arbitrator in case of future disagreements. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), headed by John Young of the Red Roosters sports group of New York and Eugene Davidson of the Washington district of the association, threw up a picket line outside of the hotel criticizing Marshall and the Redskins for not hiring Negroes. H. S. Basketball South Bend Adams 72, South Bend Riley 51. i, Evansville Bosse 55, Evansville Mater Dei 45. Edinburg 62, Greenwood 59. Man Is Acquitted Os Murder Charge INDIANAPOLIS — James Glen Howard. 33, Indianapolis, was acquitted by a jury Thursday night on a first-degree murder charge in the shotgun death of his wife, Virgie Mae, 43, mother of five children. The defense called the shooting an accident and cited a deathbed statement by Mrs. Howard that her husband “didn’t intend to do it.”

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Purdue, Indiana To Revise Lineups INDIANAPOLIS (UP) -Purdue and Indiana basketball fans will see some new faces in the startfog line-ups when Big Ten warfare resumes Saturday. Purdue, battling Illinois for second place in the top weekend game, probably will go with sophomore guard Charley Kehrt after losing Harvey Austin, its No. 5 scorer who was declared scholastically ineligible for the second semester. In 12 games, Kehrt caged 79 points. Austin hooped 104 in 13. Purdue is 4-1 in the Big Ten and 11-2 overall for the season. The Ulin! are 3-1 in the league and 10-2 for the campaign. The Boilermakers will be out to snap an 11-game winning streak that has given Illinois a 44-43 edge in their all-time series. Purdue will have the home-floor edge, while Illinois may be deeper per-sonnel-wise. The Jllini still have towering center George BonSalle, who also was declared ineligible, for two more conference games. Purdue also lost Wilson (Jake) Eison via the scholastic barometer. Indiana, also handicapped because of scholastic shortcomings, will play its first conference game since Jan. 14 at lowa in Saturday’s .regionally televised game. IU coach Branch McCracken indicated Pete Obremsky may replace the slumping Jerry Thompson at forward, while Gene Flowers or Hallie Bryant will take over one guard sppt vacated when Tom Hayes flunked his studies. The Hoosiers are .509 for the season—2-2 in the Big Ten and 3-6 overall. Despite that so-so record, their Archie Dees remains the loop's top scorer with a 24.3 per-game average. f’rade so a uooa F»*n — De>«tu

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Fullmar-Robinson Fight On April 24 CHICAGO m — Sugar Ray Robinson, aging but stubborn, said he planned to “correct” some selfadmitted mistakes in the fight in which he lost the middleweight title to Gene Fullmer and the correcting would be done at Fullmer’s expense. Sugar Ray's outline of his plans for Fullmer followed an announcement Thursday by James D. Norris, president of the International Boxing Club, that the two would meet April 24 in the Chicago Stadium. Virgil Akins Wins Over Al Andrews ST. LOUIS W - Virgil Akins of St. Louis was little the worse for wear today despite a venture outside his own weight class in scoring a technical knockout victory over Al Andrews of St. Paul, Minn. Akins, the fifth ranked welterweight, had things pretty much his own way in Thursday night’s bout, which ended when Andrews, a welterweight, failed to answer the bell for the sixth round. Herb Score Signs Cleveland Contract CLEVELAND, Ohio (UP) —Lefthanded Herb Score, 23-yqar-old Cleveland Indians fireball pitcher, signed his 1957 contract today for about a $6,000' increase over last season. Score, who won 20 games and lost 9 in his sophomore year, was believed to have signed for abode SIB,OOO. The Indians said only that he received a substantial boost. Pro Basketball Fort Wayne 111, Minneapolis 107. Syracuse 105, Boston 104. Philadelphia 106, New York 102.

More Major League Players Sign Pacts By UNITED PRESS With spring training only a month away, big league players were beginning to fall into line in wholesale numbers today. The Washington Senators, for example, announced the signing of six players at one clip today, Cleveland and Kansas City three each, and so on down the line. Outfielder Karl Olson, pitchers Bunky Stewart and Dick Hyde and infielders Jerry Snyder. Lyle Luttrell and Waldo Gonzalez were the Senator signees while infielders George Strickland and Kenny Kuhn and outfielder Stu Locklin agreed to terms with the Indians. Big Gus Zernial, catcher Tim Thompson and rookie oidfielder Leroy Schmidt signed therr contracts with the Athletics, and the Pirates added second baseman Spook Jacobs and rookie outfielder Al Griggs in their satisfied ranks. Outfielder Don Mueller, whose batting average slipped to .269 last season, accepted a contract from the Giants which called for the same salary he received last year, and outfielder Solly Drake agreed to terms with the Cubs. Southpaw Don Ferrarese, who had a 4-10 record with Baltimore, okayed his 1957 terms with the Orioles. -

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